This month in Bridging the Gap, we focus on the Fujitsu storage systems and the CentricStor VTL storage solution. As the global effort to go green picks up momentum and as energy costs increase, Fujitsu offers a storage solution that dramatically decreases the energy needs by spinning down infrequently accessed RAID groups. The associated white [...]

Fujitsu has long been in the vanguard of environmentally-responsible companies that understand the vital importance of protecting the globe. In a recently published white paper, Fujitsu details the steps it has taken to lower the energy demands of its ETERNUS storage systems. 
 
In its statement of scope, the paper notes: “Today, because of strong demand for [...]

On February 4, Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation announced that ComplianceEase, a division of LogicEase Solutions Inc., has standardized on a Fujitsu ETERNUS(R) storage area network (SAN) and Fujitsu SPARC(R)-based servers running the Solaris(TM) operating system to power its industry-leading risk management platform, including ComplianceAnalyzer(R), a hosted web-based automated compliance solution for the financial services industry. [...]

CentricStor’s position as a top market leader in an independent, cross-vendor study of virtual tape appliances crowns the recent launch of Version 4 by Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
In a report published January 31st, “The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Open Systems Virtual Tape Libraries, Q1 2008”, CentricStor was named by Forrester Research as a top market leader, based [...]

Fujitsu focuses on developing total network storage products and services that execute your mission critical requirements in the best way possible. They not only protect your essential data assets, but also provide the functions and performance that allow you to use the right data at the right time. 
If you would like a quick overview of [...]

The University of Delaware needed an enterprise-class storage solution for backup and recovery of critical academic and administrative data. The University required a highly reliable, capacity-intensive, and scalable solution that was also cost-effective. 
The ETERNUS®4000 Model 500 is used for mission-critical backup services and intermediary disk storage for disk-to-disk backup. Currently, the ETERNUS4000 is backing up [...]

On February 19, Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation and the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) announced that for the second year in a row, Keith Swenson, Fujitsu Computer Systems’ vice president of research and development, has been appointed the WfMC’s vice chairman (Americas) and technical committee chairman, and Dave Hollingsworth, managing solutions architect, Fujitsu Services, Ltd., has [...]

On February 20, Fujitsu Computer Systems announced that IDG’s Computerworld, the “Voice of IT Management,” had selected Fujitsu as one of the top Green-IT Companies for 2008. This honor is part of the IT media outlet’s very first Top Green-IT Companies feature, which was published in the February 18 issue of Computerworld and online at [...]